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Seoul Incheon airport considers a new runway just for low-cost carriers

Kyunghee Park

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Incheon will likely build shops and create services that target the needs and budgets of flyers who are less Louis Vuitton and more Uniqlo.

Incheon Airport, South Korea’s busiest, is considering building a dedicated terminal for low- cost carriers after budget passenger numbers surged sevenfold in three years. Management will decide by year-end at the earliest whether to build the facility or to convert an existing concourse to budget operations, Lee Chae Wook, chief executive officer of operator Incheon International Airport Corp., said in an interview in Hong Kong yesterday. “We’ve reached a point where we need

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